Rhizar
Helping housing innovators build AI that works.
AI is rapidly transforming housing development. Helix embeds senior AI configuration and training experts with your team to build, train, and deploy custom AI agents on Rhizar — the no-code AI platform we built for housing professionals.
Your organizational intelligence compounds. Your capacity expands.
Every Helix engagement produces working agents across the development lifecycle — feasibility, due diligence, financing, program and budget development — connected to each other and to the people who know the business.
Each agent carries its own knowledge base, learns from every interaction, and helps your team ask better questions. Every team can build new, dedicated agents as the work demands.
Who We Work With
Helix partners with a diverse range of housing professionals, empowering them to leverage AI and Rhizar for enhanced efficiency and strategic growth.
Housing Institutions & Public Agencies
Industry institutions, housing consortiums, state programs, and policy organizations encode their research, standards, and program guidance into agents the broader industry can query directly. Reports become living tools. Influence compounds as more developers and stakeholders engage the work inside their own projects.
Building Systems & Modular Manufacturers
Mass timber producers, modular manufacturers, and offsite builders encode their building systems into working agents — structural standards, delivery sequences, cost benchmarks, code pathways. Developers query them inside live projects, turning system expertise into distribution and lowering cost on every project that adopts the system.
Developers
Development teams encode feasibility, underwriting, and financing strategies into agents that compress months of work into minutes. Pre-development decisions get made faster, on better data, with patterns from your past projects compounding into every new site.
Builders & Contractors
Construction companies capture field expertise — quality standards, system-specific delivery, cost benchmarks, subcontractor patterns — in agents project managers and crews consult on every job. Senior judgment scales without senior staff being everywhere at once.
Architecture & Engineering Firms
Design standards, code analyses, and technical guidelines become agents every project team can call on. Junior staff produce work consistent with firm standards from day one. Senior staff stop being the bottleneck on work they already trained their teams to do.
Consultants & Advisory Firms
Professional services firms encode their frameworks, methodologies, and decision logic into agents that compound across engagements. New consultants inherit decades of expertise on their first day. Every client engagement makes the next one sharper.
Capital Providers & Investors
Funds and capital allocators build diligence, underwriting, and portfolio-support agents that scale the team without proportional hiring. Portfolio companies query the same diligence frameworks. Patterns from one deal sharpen the next.
Sample Clients
We're working with housing innovators to drive transformative change. Here are some of the clients we've proudly supported:
Development of an integrated technology and AI strategy, connecting development and manufacturing units with business development opportunities.
"Helix's deep insight, strategic thinking, and experience in innovative construction methodologies was incredibly valuable to Model/Z as we scaled rapidly." — Martin Muoto, CEO, SoLa Impact & Model-Z
Developed a regional forest-to-housing initiative, integrating supply chain, productization, and financing strategy for mass-timber housing production.
"Helix is great at bringing discipline, data, and an instant network to a wide range of questions regarding housing. Highly recommend." — Justin Dawe, CEO, Earth Force Technologies
Comprehensive go-to-market, business development, and finance strategy.
“We’ve worked with Helix for over a year. Their deep experience and systems-based approach, particularly the impact of manufacturing learning effects on cost reduction for housing, have been fundamental to our product development and go-to-market strategy.”
— Vamsi Kumar Kotla, CEO, ReMo Homes
Product, go to market, and finance advisory for an investment group on a mission of empowerment, equity, & legacy building.
“Working with Helix has dramatically helped our speed to success and improved our vision on our internal operations and external opportunities. We can easily recommend working with the team at Helix!”
— Caleb Jackson - CEO - Uplift Investment Group
Contribution to Washington State's Starter Home Production Plan, creating a scalable framework for 100,000 affordable homes and generational wealth building.
“Helix's deep engagement with our team was transformative. Their ability to bridge technical expertise with systems-level thinking helped us move beyond conventional approaches and into true innovation. Helix's contribution was not just additive—it was catalytic.”
— Marty Kooistra, Network Weaver, Civic Commons
Go-to-market and product development strategies for their expansion into the Southern California market.
"The Helix team brings significant experience and depth in real estate development with innovative construction methods. We're excited to be partnering with them to unlock future markets." — Vikas Enti, CEO, Reframe Systems
Development and implementation of go-to-market and architect partner strategy for the Vancouver-based modular homebuilder.
"Helix's expertise has been instrumental in helping us shape our architectural partner model. Their guidance on business development and vertical integration has been invaluable." — Rohan Kulkarni, CEO, Rohe Homes
Business model and product development for New Jersey's leading affordable housing developer.
"Helix brings a strong combination of experience and intellect. They are smart, insightful partners who helped us test and refine our plans. The process was invaluable." — Matthew Zullo - Partner - PHNX Development Partners
Leadership Team
Our founding partners bring decades of expertise in housing, technology, and innovation.
Stephen Anthony
8 years of full stack software development and engineering team leadership.
  • Previously
  • University of Michigan
Aaron Fairchild
10+ years industrialized housing production. 10+ years finance & development leadership.
  • Previously:
  • University of Washington, MBA
Aaron Holm
10+ years industrialized housing innovation. 10+ years technology leadership.
  • Previously
  • University of Toronto
Insights & Thought Leadership
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The Housing Ecosystem: Scalar Solutions to Home Affordability in Washington State Panel

Building Innovation 2026: The Housing Ecosystem: Scalar Solutions to Home Affordability in Washington State Panel Innovations in modular construction are reshaping how buildings are designed, manufactured, and delivered—offering faster timelines, improved quality, and greater predictability. This session will highlight emerging technologies, design strategies, and production approaches that are expanding the capabilities of modular and offsite construction across housing and other building typ

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Webinar 1 (Oct. 30) - A Systems Approach to Canada's Housing Crisis. Lessons from California

For the kickoff to OCRC's 2025-26 Transforming Construction Webinar Series, join Aaron Holm, Founding Partner of Helix, for an insightful presentation, “A Systems Approach to Canada’s Housing Crisis: Lessons from California and Opportunities for Canada.” As Canada launches the Build Canada Homes program, lessons from California reveal that funding alone isn’t enough—systemic change is key. This session explores how adopting a housing systems approach can lower costs, boost efficiency, and unloc

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WA State Scalable Starter Home Plan

Helix was a core author and contributor to the creation of the Scalable Starter Home Plan. for Washington State The Plan offers actionable recommendations for increasing production of for-sale starter homes affordable to households with low and moderate incomes.

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From Projects to Process

The Promise of Service-Oriented Housing Development

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Housing Innovation Narrative

Aaron Holm - Founding Partner - Helix - aaron@helixbuild.com

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Why Modular Construction Fails w/ Blokable | Episode 68

Aaron Holm is the Co-CEO of Blokable, a company dedicated to transforming industries through innovative building products, systems, and business models. With a rich background in launching and leading businesses, Aaron has played a pivotal role in the creation of Amazon Go and Amazon Books. His expertise spans advanced technology and logistics, having co-founded notable companies such as Mylio and Industrial Color, the latter revolutionizing the media industry’s shift from analog to digital phot

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